We don’t need more blobs of suburban “neighborhoods”. Urban centers should be renovating/repurposing vacant properties and infilling empty areas. It’s a matter of building more densely and not tearing down nature for the sake of private equity firms bottom lines
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Makes you a bit light headed and pleasantly dissociated. If you’ve ever done psychedelics it’s a bit like the come up. You get really loose and jovial for a minute.or two; it’s pretty common to spend it laughing your ass off. Then you come back to earth feeling relaxed. It’s (safely) synergistic with a lot of common party drugs.
I can only speak to its effects with mushrooms and acid. On a healthy dose of mushrooms (3.5 g or so) it’s akin to a DMT trip of you hit it at the peak. Fractals out the wazoo and you lose all sense of time. I thought I travelled to the future and came back with an unsettling sense of deja vu. 7/10.
The last time I did whipits was in combination with some nice dark web blotters. Dropped a 150 mic tab, watched 2001: a space odyssey and did whipits the whole time. The visuals were very different from mushrooms. Colors appeared out of nowhere, deep purples, greens and reds dripping off the walls and screens while you felt like your very essence was melting into a pool of narcotic bliss. Again, losing all sense of time until your soul suddenly reconstituted itself. 11/10
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Hey that’s a pretty good idea, thank you! That got the neurons firing a bit. As an aside, I was getting help for a bit but therapy is expensive. Im going to school so I can finally get a job that pays enough for me to get health insurance instead of paying out of pocket. Thanks again!
That’s a great idea! I’ve been so fixated on trying to follow the prompt, the thought of using one of my emotions wheels never occured to me lol. Thank you
I did have some success doing essentially what you said. My free writing was certainly a lot more colorful than the draft I produced. I had a hard time editing my free writing to fit the prompt, essentially stripping what little emotion there was out of it in order to make it flow. The ADHD also made it rough to stay on topic haha. I’d get really into what I was writing and then read it back and realize it was completely useless for the purposes of my essay
Just want to preface that I completely agree with you, I just want to share some fun trivia. The Greek and Norse mythologies are the same*. They both originate from the Proto-Indo-European people. They’re not the only ones either, the Proto-Indo-Europeans are thought to have a wide reaching influence, even to this day. As stated, Greek and Norse mytholfogies along with the Roman pantheon, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Bahaism, zorastrianism, along with Celtic, Baltic and Slavic mythologies. There’s even reason to believe that the Proto-Indo-Europeans had an influence on Shinto and early Judaism. To my understanding, its believed that Norse mythology is the most “intact” version of the Proto-Indo-European myth. Pretty neat stuff!
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Idk if it’s an ADHD thing or just a normal people thing but I think I don’t remember much about the books until I’m discussing/writing about the subject. It jogs my memory and all of a sudden I can recall significant portions of the texts. Perhaps not verbatim, but the overall vibe is there. Doubly so if it’s something you’re actually interested in. Don’t beat yourself up too much OP, you probably remember more than you realize!
Just gonna hop in and repost an old comment of mine. The context is that someone said the word Authoritarian was created during the cold war to slander “communist” countries.
The first use of authoritarian is in 1852, in the writings of AJ Davis apparently. Here’s the quote:
1856 A. J. Davis Penetralia 129 Does any one believe that the Book is essential to Salvation? Yes; there are many externalists and authoritarians who think so.
Authoritarian was also increasing in usage well before the cold war, beginning around 1910 or so. An example from Nationalism and Culture by Rudolf Rocker (an anarchist political philosopher), written in 1933:
Nietzsche also had a profound conception of this truth, although his inner disharmony and his constant oscillation between outlived authoritarian concepts and truly libertarian ideas all his life prevented him from drawing the natural deductions from it.
That’s a thoroughly modern use of the word authoritarian, written almost 15 years before the start of the cold war. Authoritarian is used to describe those who support hierarchial systems of government. That’s the short and sweet of it, perhaps not a perfect dictionary definition but it illustrates the distinctive bit. Auth-left ideologies get equivocated with fascism because there’s an undeniable ideological throughline between the two, no matter how much they hate each other.
"The working class […] cannot be left wandering all over Russia. They must be thrown here and there, appointed, commanded, just like soldiers […] Compulsion of labour will reach the highest degree of intensity during the transition from capitalism to socialism […] Deserters from labour ought to be formed into punitive battalions or put into concentration camps.’
Trotsky wrote that. It may not be 1:1 but the similarities between his ideas and those.of fascists are pretty obvious.
All of this, written before the cold war. Tell me again how authoritarian is a made up word that serves only to slander “communists”?
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